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15Feb

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Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup

By Prof. Vijay Prashad Global Research, On May 3, 2020, the Bolivian people will go to the polls once more. They return there because President Evo Morales had been overthrown in a coup in November 2019. Morales had just won a presidential election in October for a term that would have begun in January 2020. Based on a preliminary investigation by the Organization of American States (OAS) that claimed that there was fraud in the election, Morales was prematurely removed from office; the term for his 2014 presidential election victory did not end until January. Yet, he was told by the military to leave office. An interim president – Jeanine Áñez – appointed herself. She said she was taking this office only on an interim basis and would not run for el...

15Feb

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Bolivia, Ireland, USA

Real and “Fake” Elections: US, Bolivia, Ireland

By: Global Research, Bolivian Elections Will be an Opportunity to Legalize the Coup By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, The next Bolivian presidential elections were scheduled for May 3. The scenario in the country remains troubled, marked by the unrest and tensions created by the coup that led to the overthrow of Evo Morales. On the one hand, candidates from the right stand up enthusiastically with the intention of neutralizing any possible resurrection of the left. On the other hand, Morales, although with undeniable popular support, currently does not seem to have enough strength to face the right forces. Bolivia: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing CoupBy Prof. Vijay Prashad, February 14, 2020Morales was prematurely removed from office; the term for his 2014 ...

14Feb

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Bolivia, C.I.A, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Bolivian Elections Will be an Opportunity to Legalize the Coup

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Global Research, The next Bolivian presidential elections were scheduled for May 3. The scenario in the country remains troubled, marked by the unrest and tensions created by the coup that led to the overthrow of Evo Morales. On the one hand, candidates from the right stand up enthusiastically with the intention of neutralizing any possible resurrection of the left. On the other hand, Morales, although with undeniable popular support, currently does not seem to have enough strength to face the right forces. Bolivia is currently going through one of the worst phases in its history. A real drop, if we take into account the situation of economic stability that the country lived recently, with the policies of an indigenous and socialist nature of ...

11Jan

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Evo Morales Says He Is ‘Absolutely Convinced’ US Led Coup in Bolivia to Exploit Lithium Reserves

"It was a national and international coup d'etat... it's a coup against lithium." by: Jake Johnson, Bolivia's ex-President Evo Morales speaks during an interview with AFP in Buenos Aires on December 24, 2019. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images) Former Bolivian President Evo Morales said in an interview Tuesday that he is "absolutely convinced" the United States orchestrated the military coup that removed him from power last month with the goal of exploiting Bolivia's enormous lithium reserves. Morales told AFP that he believes the U.S. had not "forgiven" him for pursuing lithium partnerships with China and Russia over Washington. "Transnational companies are behind the coup. The United States, too, because of the lithi...

25Dec

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Bolivia fights, sheds blood to resist the coup

By Estevan Hernández Nov. 11 mass protest against the coup at Universidad Publica de El Alto. Photo: Twitter/amandaasubiar, Twitter/UpeaAlDia #ElMundoConEvo #USHandsOffBolivia The Bolivian Indigenous, poor and working-class people are in a struggle for their lives against the recent U.S.-backed coup. Bolivians are demanding democracy, justice, and a return to the presidency of Evo Morales, who won the recent October 20 elections. They are struggling to overcome the violent racist dictatorship imposed by the military. As of this writing, at least eight people were massacred and 115 wounded yesterday by military and police forces who suppressed anti-coup protests in Sacaba in the outlying areas of Cochabamba. Videos of the protests showed bloodied people carried away from t...

21Dec

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Bolivia, ZIO-NAZI

Bolivia: A coup for Zionist too

The right wing seeks to reconquer Bolivia, dismantling solidarity with Palestine and bringing in Israeli advisors to help crush protests People demonstrate in support of Bolivia’s overthrown president, Evo Morales, in Buenos Aires on 22 November (AFP)361Shares Shortly after left-wing Bolivian President Evo Morales was ousted in a US-supported coup in November - disguised as a noble reaction to alleged electoral fraud - the self-appointed, fanatically right-wing Bolivian “interim” government announced the renewal of diplomatic relations with Israel. These had been severed by Morales in 2009 during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, which killed some 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 300 children. Though Israel naturally cast i...

16Dec

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Bolivia’s Five Hundred-Year Rebellion

by PETER LACKOWSKI Photograph Source: Alka Agrawal It appears Gaston Ugangi created the painting – CC0 In 1781, the Bolivian indigenous leader Tupac Katari led a rebellion in which La Paz, the Spanish colonial capital of “Upper Peru,” was besieged for 109 days.The siege ended with the arrival of a Spanish army. Katari was captured, he and his wife, Bartolina Sisa, were gruesomely executed, and thousands of indigenous people were massacred. For many years this was treated as a minor event in history books, but in the latter half of the twentieth century Katari and Sisa have been celebrated as symbols of the resistance to oppression by the indigenous majority, and as martyrs in a national revolution whose time has finally come. The Five Hundred Year Rebellion: Indigenous Movem...

12Dec

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Bolivia, USA

Bolivia: The 21st Century Coup d’État and Its Crimes Against Humanity

By Alex Anfruns Global Research, After the coup d’état, repression is advancing by leaps and bounds in Bolivia. The dictatorship persecutes the “narco-traffickers”, “vandals” and “terrorists”, that is to say: the social movements, former members of the government, peasants and indigenous people who demonstrate and are assassinated by the army (35 dead and more than 800 wounded). The de facto government criminalizes international human rights observation missions, the ombudsman’s office and even journalists, calling them “digital warriors” or “computer terrorists”. In so doing, it seeks to bury the truth under a mountain of false accusations. Ultimatum to democracy, parade of neo-fascism Since the October 20 elections, Bolivia has been going through a political crisis that is f...

11Dec

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Bolivia, USA

Stop the coup; defend President Evo Morales. Hands off Bolivia!

As Latin America’s masses struggle to throw off the yoke of imperialist control, the US has intervened once more to overthrow a popular government. Party statement The CPGB-ML strongly condemns the coup that took place yesterday, 10 November, in Bolivia, where army chiefs forced elected president Evo Morales to resign, with a warrant for his arrest being issued a few hours afterwards. The apparent leader of the coup is a prominent representative of wealthy Santa Cruz capitalists, bible thumper Luis Fernando Camacho, and in recent days its organisers have been sending fascist gangs around the country to terrorise members of the government and of the party of government, Movimiento al Socialismo (the Movement for Socialism) and their families. Meanwhile, the army and police ...

11Dec

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Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela

From climate change to regime change

From Brazil to Bolivia and Venezuela: how the environment has become a tool of coercion. Proletarian writers Evo Morales joined firefighters in burned forest in Santa Rosa, Boliva, August 2019. Since this article was written, the legitimate president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has been overthrown in a US-sponsored coup. The huge profits to be made from Bolivia’s massive reserves of lithium (essential in the production of electric cars) are just one of the factors being pointed to by commentators seeking to explain imperialism’s desire to replace Evo Morales’s popular government with one under their control. ***** Throughout August and early September, fires ravaged large parts of the Amazon rainforest, affecting the nations of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Peru. ...